In line with recommendations made by Committee for the Evaluation of Scientific Units earlier this year Polish Minister of Science and Higher Education officially rated NCBJ as a category A+ scientific unit. That highest category has been granted to a group of only 47 units selected among about 1,000 evaluated ones from all science fields. There are only four R&D Institutes among all 47 category A+ scientific units in Poland. We have been included in a really elite group!